Scott BenzelPreteen Gnosis: A Young Person’s Guide to Special Effects“…the whole beehive develops a temperature comparable to that of blood…Thus, the occultist designates the bee as having been born out of…Jul 19Jul 19
Scott BenzelRealitymaxing: notes on Alien Prototypes (Twin Flames), 2024, and Aviary II (Fauconnerie), 2024…characterized by the inclusion of novel, erroneous mental contents … “apophenia” (is) conceptualized here as a disposition toward false…Apr 12Apr 12
Scott BenzelNotes on Gyre (Typhon), 2024, and Vestigia Nulla Retrorsum (‘No Traces Behind’), 2023Vestigia Nulla Retrorsum, 2023, is vaporware–a speculative economic/electronic/cultural assemblage. Vaporware troubles the distance between…Mar 22Mar 22
Scott BenzelSymbols of the divine show up in our world initially at the trash stratum, 2020-present“The first thing that I pulled out of Dylan’s garbage was a half-finished letter written by Bob Dylan to Johnny Cash…”Holy Moley, “ I said…Sep 25, 2023Sep 25, 2023
Scott BenzelArchon Fever — The Hypostasis of Elizabeth Quezada-Lee and Christopher JohstWhat is a monster? A being whose duration is incompatible with the existing order. – Diderot, Elements of PhysiologyMay 18, 2023May 18, 2023
Scott BenzelThe Cremation of Care — Nick Angelo’s ModelsWhat does it mean for a painter to think? — Hubert DamishMay 10, 2023May 10, 2023